Boy bands and gayness have kind of gone hand-in-hand for years now. Stephen Gately bravely came out during the height of Boyzone’s fame, and Mark Feehily from Westlife did the same. Lance Bass from *N Sync…the list goes on.

So, it’s actually quite refreshing to see that Boyzone are leading the pack again when Stephen Gately is paired with a guy in their forthcoming video for Better. The other guys from the band are seen singing to girls, but Stephen’s partner, fittingly, is a man.

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“Shawry…” slurs Ronan Keating in Boyzone’s ode to forgiveness, Baby Can I Hold You. What he means is ’sorry’, but when it comes to Keating’s irritating fake singing voice, you’d be forgiven for mis-hearing.

Anyway, that Boyzone reunion mustn’t be meeting the same levels of success as their arch-rivals Take That, because I read today that they’re apologising for starting a ruck in Dublin during the 2000 MTV Music Awards.

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